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Avaya Messaging, New Voicemail Coming May 20
Telephone Services is pleased to announce a new voicemail service coming May 20 called Avaya Messaging. Your new voicemail service provides a web access portal for managing messages and settings for Lab phones online and a new feature that allows you to define “find me” rules. Read more »
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Data Center Utilization Report – March 2012
Nina Lucido posted on Apr 13, 2012 What was installed: Cluster Support: Approximately 18.2kW Business Systems: No new systems What was removed: Cluster Support: Approximately 2kW Business Systems: None March average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.46 Average Power Consumption: 410kW IT 1kw Lighting 23.0kW Building and IT Losses 165kW Cooling Power – unknown due to sensor… Read more »
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HPC Services at MoabCon 2012
Gary M Jung posted on Apr 10, 2012 HPC Services senior engineer Michael Jennings will be talking about the new features of the Warewulf 3 cluster toolkit and about a new cluster Node Health Check program that he developed at this week’s Moabcon 2012 conference in Promo, Utah this week. Read more »
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Clocking an Accelerating Universe
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 30, 2012 Using data collected by the Sloan Telescope located at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico and processed by the Riemann Linux cluster operated by Berkeley Lab’s HPC Services Group, scientists have announced the most accurate measurement to date of the structure of the universe at the time, five… Read more »
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Changes Planned for Identity Management Services
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 30, 2012 Significant changes to our Identity Management Services are underway. LDAP Directory Services One Time Password (OTP) Services Increase in use of our Single Sign-on and Federated Authentication Service The first two are targeted for initial deployment the first week of May. In the case of the OTP service,… Read more »
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Version Control System – Now Available
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 20, 2012 IT recently concluded efforts to provide Bitbucket, a distributed version control system for software developers, to lab users. We are in the early stages of rollout and are looking for some early adopters. Bitbucket supports both Git and Mercurial, works on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems and includes… Read more »
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Archives and Records Class on April 10
Nina Lucido posted on Mar 15, 2012 Are you running out of space in your office, moving to a new office, or tasked with processing the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Learn more about files that need to be kept, which can be archived, which can be disposed of, and DOE and Lab compliance… Read more »
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Whats New in Matlab
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 06, 2012 R2012a Release Highlights for the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families For those of you are Matlab users, a 30 minute video concerning the latest improvements can be found here For a short intro to a variety of products impacted by this release, go here. Read more »
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Supercluster downtime scheduled, Mar 6th, Tuesday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Krishna Muriki posted on Mar 05, 2012 HPCS team has scheduled a downtime to the Lab supercluster on March 6th, Tuesday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm to peform regular maintenance. Users will not be able to access the login nodes, cluster queues or the data on the cluster filesystems. This is a downtime for all… Read more »
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Mailstop Changes in Lab Directory
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 02, 2012 Background Direct (self service) update of location, phone, fax, mailstop, and personal web page was implemented last Fall. At the time, we noted there was some work to be done to re-engineer the process involving mailstops. This work has been completed. Over the past several weeks, Facilities has… Read more »
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LabTech 2012
Nina Lucido posted on Mar 01, 2012 LabTech – The Berkeley Lab Computing and Technology Event By and For Lab Staff This page is about LabTech2012, if you’re looking for information about LabTech2013 coming up on October 10, visit: http://go.lbl.gov/labtech Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11AM-6PM What is LabTech? LabTech is a free event created… Read more »
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February 8 Google Apps Classes
Nina Lucido posted on Feb 03, 2012 IT Division is currently offering introductory courses, taught by a Learn iT instructor, on Gmail/Google Calendar and Google Docs. We still have room available for our Wednesday, February 8 classes. Other upcoming classes include MS Power Point and MS Office 2010. To take advantage of these and other classes,… Read more »
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Understanding Google’s Privacy Policy Changes for Google Apps at Berkeley Lab
Adam Stone posted on Jan 31, 2012 Earlier this month, Google made big headlines with a major overhaul of its privacy policies. Google has described these changes as necessary to both simplify its policies and enable more customized content across its services. Critics have charged that the new policies make changes that are privacy-unfriendly and that… Read more »
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